Exploring the Various Types of Drum and Percussion Mallets and What They Can Do

Drums are great to own, and they can be a lot of fun to play
and practice with. But did you know that, in the percussion family, there are
many more instruments to speak of. These instruments often feature a huge
variety of percussion mallets, each with their own unique shape and physical
characteristics, meant to provide a unique experience and help create the
unique sounds that the instruments in question have gotten us used to:

Drum sticks actually feature many different
varieties, such as the well-known 7A (a common jazz stick), the 5A wood tipped
rock stick or the 7AN, which is similar to the jazz stick but features a nylon
tip.

Rutes, or ruthes are known as multi-rods and are
beaters for drums that feature a movable band designed to adjust how tightly
bound the dowels are toward the tip.

Another well-known percussion mallet is the
wand, which is typically used to strike a triangle.

Finally, hammers, which are also known as
dongers or mallets, are – as the name would suggest – shaped like actual
hammers, and are designed to strike the xylophone or marimba, which is a percussion
instrument featuring wooden bars struck by the hammer, with each bar being
assigned a specific musical note.

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